I am probably the longest living marine player at the club so I will try and work an army list that will be simple and effective for your first time games, and then you can tweek it from there to suit your personal needs. Will post it up later as I am going to Wappinshaw soon.

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Cheers, I have made a few lists as I have been playing via vassal, with mixed results. Did ok last time against some Eldar. Not really played much of this edition though, and waiting on the new one before buying the rules properly, the last 40k edition I owned was Rogue Trader many moons ago, hence the age of some of the Marines.

Yeah not much in the way of tanks, but plenty of Devastators. May be getting a Predator though, and the Dreadnoughts help a lot. But not overly worried about the lack of tanks that much tbh.

As for painted, well these will be the first full army I have painted, when I finish them. Running low on paint at mo but have nearly finished all the troops, just the vehicles, walkers and bikes to do really. Oh and they are my own home made chapter, so my own colour scheme rather than going for a published one.

Space marine captain- Storm Bolter, power sword and artficer armour = 133pts Normally I personally don't spend many points on my HQ but I think you could probably do that since you don't have alot of expensive units. Optional=Command Squad- Company Champion, Vet1-Flamer,melta-bombsx2, Vet2- Powerfist, Vet3-melta gun, melta-bombsx2 + a rhino/razerback twin-linked plasma gun and lascannon, extra armour= 280pts(if you drop a few scouts and all camo cloaks for both squads and whirlwind you can get this. just double check.)

Cool, cheers. Need to proxy a lot on there though. So far I have just been sort of making a list depending on the force I am playing against. Will try your list out though.

Not actually that big a fan of Whirlwinds tbh, rather take a vindicator than a whirl and I do not rate Vindicators that much either lol, Predators seem more worthwhile.

Added (18-Jun-2012, 11:38 PM)---------------------------------------------Added a few more things to the collection; and extra jump assault marine with plasma pistol, a combat squad, marine with melta gun as a option for tactical squad, a Razorback, 2 more bikers and a Landraider.